Drips of inspiration from a leaky pen
God spoke.
The galaxies,
Like flour flicked from His hand,
Adorn the space of indigo
And glow.
-Rynelle Penner
Yes, it’s short.
Read it again.
One of my greatest struggles in writing is making my articles/poems too long. But this time, I made it short. This quote captures my problem well.
“I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.”
-Blaise Pascal
But I’ll be honest, and show you a raw rough draft of this floury galaxy poem. I even gave this mess its own title, Humps and Lumps. This is actually how many of my poems come into being when I have the thoughts, but lack words.
HUMPS AND LUMPS
God sprinkled ‘cross the indigo space
A floury trail of stars.
He sifted each one through His fingers;
Then rolled out the humps of planets in their place.
He picked a lump from a hump
And shaped a MAN!
Its name was ADAM!
Cradling it in His hands,
He puffed the dust away
And blew His life inside.
And from the lump
There became more.
Now today two thousand years later,
The lumps He created,
Breathe and explore,
Gazing at the floury trails of stars,
Looking for footprints on Mars,
Forgetting that their breath originated
Not from aliens, but from God.
Forgetting that the Milky Way
Was created—not evolved.
And somewhere among all these lumps
On these humps
There bumped a WOMAN!
Its name was RYNELLE!
As it punched some dough on a countertop
And thought of God and the stars
And the floury trails of the galaxies,
It intended to write it out,
But when it tried to puff the dust off its brain
And make a poem,
It failed to express the intents of the heart.
So end these indescribable imaginations.
If you remember anything from this post, please remember this:
Your Creator made beauty out of nothing and life out of dust, so He is more than capable of transforming your messes into masterpieces.
Inspired to Inspire 
Rynelle, this touched me. Thank you. Somehow, thinking of God working my life the way I work a ball of dough is comforting.
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Good one. 🙂 Yes, I know the problem of saying too when I could say it in much less
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